Folk isn’t just for listening, it’s for doing. Grab a spoon, a ukulele, or just your best shower-singing voice and join in on one of the participatory workshops. Festival faves include the Festival ...

“Drunk II” was an unlikely highlight—a song so personal Mannequin Pussy had to stop playing it for a while—as Dabice sang her heart out, while a deluge of crowd-surfers took to the heavens over the ...

...and it says it better then I ever could. Tate McRae - that way Will I always be left wondering? We've had so much time to explore it.

Have you ever been to a bear-thday party? Grouse Mountain is throwing one tomorrow (July 26) and you’re invited to celebrate two of its most beloved residents: Grinder and Coola, the mountaintop’s ...

Sometimes I feel like giving up. I try and try but with certain people it feels like walking on broken glass. Like they’re waiting for me to say the “wrong” thing or that they pounce on every slight ...

Although it's been just about 6 months since I've seen your face in front of me, I still think about you every single day. Although we never even kissed, hugged etc, each conversation we had, each ...

They are tired of bickering about identity politics after tiring us out with lots of woke woke woke woke woke non-sense. I'm glad they're done with it. Time to become fiscally conservative :-) ...

Laura Jane Grace has taken to social media to address her wife’s accusations of spousal abuse last week . On July 17, the Against Me! frontwoman posted “I feel unsafe” on Instagram and Threads. That ...

Sounds Good is a monthly roundtable where we ask Straight staff what their ears are plugged into. We’ve got a pretty diverse set of tastes, so there’s absolutely no cohesion here: just good vibes. And ...

GS has been making it's way back to being an art zine and one of the neatest things that ex pats of Vancouver can read to not feel homesick for Vancouver. Finding new artists via the GS used to make ...

I confess that I no longer have the patience for anyone who plays mind games or can’t answer a simple question. I’m just bored silly with that nonsense and if you think you’re being clever and ...

So yes, I’m talking to Perez the morning after he and his band, Vancouver-based psychedelic cumbia and salsa ensemble Empanadas Ilegales, played their first show at the Commodore Ballroom: an opening ...